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The University of Massachusetts has received a $330,000 grant from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation to support development of a pilot “early college” program that would provide high…, , However, more than 80 percent of Massachusetts high school students do not have access to an approved early college program, and few of those students live within reasonable travel distance to a…, UMass President Marty Meehan, said. “With the Commonwealth Collegiate Academy, we want to build on existing partnerships and build new ones to lower the barriers that are preventing too many young people from achieving their…, Katherine S. Newman, UMass System Chancellor for Academic Programs & Senior Vice President for Economic Development, said: “The creation of the Commonwealth Collegiate Academy is consistent with the University’s mission of providing broad access to the life-changing benefits provided by a college degree. We are…, Erika Giampietro, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Alliance for Early College, , said. “The Commonwealth Collegiate Academy can help make meaningful progress towards our goal of serving 45,000 students with high-quality Early College and ultimately closing a quarter of the…, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Executive Director Ed Lambert, said. “The delivery of high-quality content in accelerated career themed pathways is something that the state's business leaders strongly support. Early College works and scaling up this evidence-…, , Support, tutoring, and advising will be provided by partner high school staff members working in close collaboration with UMass staff members. The program would be, rolled out over a four-year period, beginning as soon as fall 2022. The first phase of the pilot will include UMass Dartmouth and UMass Lowell, with UMass Amherst and UMass Boston joining the pilot…
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Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi , professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, has received a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship for the 2022-23 academic…
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Michael Zink UMass Amherst professor Michael Zink, electrical and computer engineering, is principal investigator of a new $399,676 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to extend the university’s…
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Image compilation of galaxies NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just finished taking its widest-ever near-infrared image of the universe, an area almost seven times the size of our moon. That such an…
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Exterior of Integrated Sciences Complex at UMass Boston UMass Boston has received $1.6 million in funding from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) to establish a new Biophysical…
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Image of an assortment of produce, seeds, and nuts AMHERST, Mass. – An international team led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst food and environmental virologist has received a $750,000 USDA…
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Six graduate students in the Department of Kinesiology have been awarded Leadership and Diversity Training Program (LDTP) fellowship awards by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Founded…, Level 2 Awardees (Doctoral Level Students), Marcos Amalbert-Birriel, , a doctoral student working in the Physical Activity and Health Lab under the supervision of Associate Professor John Sirard, Melanna Cox, , a doctoral student working in the Physical Activity and Health Lab under the supervision of Associate Professor John Sirard, Joseph Gordon III, , a doctoral student working in the Muscle Physiology Lab under the supervision of Professor Jane Kent, Skylar Holmes, , a doctoral student working in the Musculoskeletal Orthopedic Biomechanics Lab under the supervision of Associate Professor Katherine Boyer, Level 1 Awardees (Master’s Level Students), Timothy Joseph, , a master’s student working in the Pediatric Physical Activity Lab under the supervision of Professor Sofiya Alhassan, Nehemiah Wilson, , a master’s student working in the Pediatric Physical Activity Lab under the supervision of Professor Sofiya Alhassan
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AMHERST, Mass. – Amid an unprecedented democratic decline in the U.S., a new report by Beyond Conflict , co-authored by University of Massachusetts Amherst social psychologist Linda Tropp ,…, Factionalism and partisan sorting., Americans’ political affiliations have become tightly aligned with other salient group identities. Remedies include highlighting identities that cut across partisan differences; creating space to…, Residential segregation and declining social trust, . Segregation means that people from different groups are less likely to have first-hand experience with each other, which limits our capacity to counter the influences of divisive messaging.…, Information echo chambers., The more we live in distinct and divisive information ecosystems that exaggerate a sense of being disliked and dehumanized by the other side, the more inclined we are to support using anti-…, Divergent racial attitudes and beliefs about racial equity., Factionalism, bolstered by information echo chambers and residential segregation, drives widely divergent views on racial inequality in America. Remedies include disrupting common narratives and…
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Neuroscientist Karine Fénelon , assistant professor of biology, has been chosen to receive the Armstrong Fund for Science at UMass Amherst’s 2022 award. The two-year, $39,121 grant will support…
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